The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District has concluded that it could find no evidence that a person was injured or killed where a hillside collapsed along the American River bluffs east of the Fair Oaks Bridge.

At noon, Sac Metro fire officials said that “based on neither of the two human remains dogs finding anything” the department’s responders “have terminated command and concluded search operations.”

The agency had sent about 20 firefighters back to check the area Sunday morning after a half dozen people reported seeing a shirtless man in black short who was hiking in the area Saturday evening disappear.

He was walking on the north side of the American River when the hillside collapsed.

Based on those reports, Sac Metro Fire reported deploying about 60 people, using search dogs, boats and helicopers on Saturday night.

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